Posted by jandscattleco | Filed under Family
Walk In CO
27 Friday Dec 2013
27 Friday Dec 2013
Posted by jandscattleco | Filed under Family
27 Friday Dec 2013
Posted Family
inWell we did it. I was told at Thanksgiving we were visiting my sister-in-law and her husband in Colorado over Christmas break. Due to the cost of plane tickets on short notice, and other costs associated with us trying to fly, we decided to drive.
We hit the interstate in middle Tennessee at exactly 6am on the dot! The wife was asleep before the second exit and there I was, alone in the truck (figuratively speaking), heading west on an 18 hour trek. Rolled through Nashville, Clarksville, and into Kentucky. We had been there hardly anytime and I started seeing ducks on the ponds that weren’t frozen over yet! Small groups like we see in Middle Tn, 3 here, 5 there, etc. nothing to get excited about.
Hit Paducah and had to stop to break down the pistol. Apparently Illinois doesn’t like handguns (der think of Chicago) and doesn’t recognize carry permits from other states. Rolled on through and Into St. Louis. Last time I was here the wife and I stayed on our way back from the honeymoon on the 4th of July. Got a picture of the arch and kept on trucking.
Finally hit Kansas City and forgot just how big of a town it really is. Let me tell you, the folks out there were less than nice on the interstate! Definitely no southern hospitality there! As we’re leaving the city we notice that more and more snow is building up in the pastures and fields off to the sides. Beautiful snow. It made me feel as if right over the little rise (definitely not a hill by any means), would be a guy filming a hunt! It just looked perfect. I could only imagine traipsing across the snow, following deer tracks or setting up in a small dug out and waiting for a coyote to pop it’s he’d up over the ridge. Suddenly from the side of the interstate over 200 geese fly up and form groups of “v”s and he’d away towards the sunset. It was an amazing sight.
Starts to get dark and the wife says “look at the lights!” Finally get to see them and there are hundreds of red blinking lights. We were driving through a wind farm and the turbines were spinning away even with the slightest wind. Also, apparently when I was sleeping she said there were near 500 geese fly over.
Driving across Kansas the fuel gauge starts to get low and the wife needs to use the bathroom so we find a small town up ahead showing gas and food. Stop at the gas station at 8:00pm and its closed. The pumps are still running so we fuel up and try to find the bathroom. Locked. We head more into the town and see hardly any lights. I see a neon light ahead and figure its a bar or something that at least has a bathroom. We walk past the parking lot, 2 trucks, a car and a 4wheeler and into the smallest room I’ve ever been in. The wife heads into the bathroom and I order a coffee. We don’t serve coffee here. Ok how about a sweet tea. The bartender just stares at me. The wife motions me over to the bathroom and says “There’s no light switch?” Apparently the switch was outside the bathroom. Who knows. I throw down a couple dollars and head out the door. We make it to Oakley, Ks and stop to take a picture of the sign and keep on trucking. Make the state line and there is still nothing. Dark, cold and nothing. At all. As far as you can see.
The wife is driving and we’re starting to get low on fuel. 1/8th of a tank so its time to find a station. First town we come to has a sign with “No Services.” Next town has one gas station. I fuel up while the wife goes to the bathroom. It’s 10:09pm and the gas station attendant yells at her because its “Past Closing Time!” We roll on with me driving and top a hill and there it is. Lights of Denver. Huge, wide, lit up like a tree Denver. After going through all the vast open plains coming into a huge city like this was very unnerving. VERY UNNERVING. I was white knuckled on the steering wheel the whole time. Finally, after 18.5 hours we made it to the In laws.
What a trip.
25 Wednesday Dec 2013
Posted Recipes
inEasy Peach Cobbler Recipe for camping:
6 cans Peaches in Heavy Syrup (3 drained, 3 with syrup)
1 box Butter Recipe Yellow Cake Mix
1 Stick Butter
Cinnamon to taste
Start charcoal briquets (approximately 25).
Empty cans of peaches into Dutch Oven (3 with syrup, 3 drained).
Pour cake mix ontop of peaches DO NOT MIX.
Slice stick of butter into pats and place ontop of cake mix.
Cinnamon to taste on top.
Place Dutch oven with lid onto coals (15) and place 10 onto lid.
Cook 40 minutes or until top is brown.
Serves up to 12 people.
You can cut the recipe in half for smaller groups.
ENJOY!!!
25 Wednesday Dec 2013
Posted Hunting Season 2013-2014
in25 Wednesday Dec 2013
Posted Hunting Season 2012-2013
in25 Wednesday Dec 2013
Posted by jandscattleco | Filed under Hunting Season 2013-2014
25 Wednesday Dec 2013
Posted Hunting Season 2013-2014
inClean Kill or No Kill, Lord 0 Lord,
I am a hunter And life I seek to take
But let me not attempt the shot Beyond my skill to make
For Lord they are your creatures Given for our use
But each one falls within your sight They’re not for our abuse
And when I loose my arrow Please guide it swift and true
Or let it miss completely, Lord That pain be not undue
A clean kill or no kill, Lord Such is my heart’s desire
Give me the skill to make it so Or let me hold my fire
And when my time upon this earth The days they are fulfilled
Grant that I may die at least As clean as those I killed